Adzuki beans, red lentils, rice and a handful of fresh soybeans from a South Dakota field sat in small piles on the tables inside the Stockyards Ag Experience the evening of Oct. 15. By the end of the night, toothpicks in hand, participants had begun turning them into flowers, quilt blocks a…
Crop Watcher Megan Horsager is eager to get back to tillage work. There is still a fair amount to do.
"The way we name an experience shapes the way we carry it."
Fertilizer strategy has long been centered on the “Four Rs” – right source, right rate, right timing and right placement. That hasn’t changed, but experts are adjusting some numbers.
"Almost every day was gloomy. This was not ideal conditions for the farmers. We got delayed another week from the field."
"They aren’t sitting around wondering when America will invite them back to the dance. They’re finding other dance partners."
On the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, John Peterson paused to remember where he was that fateful day.
A fence that doesn’t exist might sound impossible, but it became a reality for a group of South Dakota cattle producers this summer.
"They aren’t sitting around wondering when America will invite them back to the dance. They’re finding other dance partners."
"If the Dodgers hadn’t lost so badly to the Yankees in the seventh game of the 1956 World Series, I might not have been cheering for the Milwaukee Brewers."
On the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, John Peterson paused to remember where he was that fateful day.
"When one of the better ranchers in Lyman County put a black bull on his Hereford cows, it was the main topic of conversation at the Reliance Cafe."
Minnesota cattle producers will gather in Mankato Dec. 11-12 for the 2026 Minnesota Cattle Industry Convention, hosted by the Minnesota State Cattlemen’s Association (MSCA). This year’s convention, themed “Forging the Future,” will focus on the vital role individual cattle producers play in …
Congratulations to Margaret Walker of Sidney, Nebraska, and Darlene Weshnevski of Tower City, North Dakota, who each won a gift box after submitting recipes for this column. Their names were selected from among many talented cooks who responded to our request for recipes late this summer.
Settled under the Homestead Act of 1885, the Ochsner family farm in Sutton, Nebraska, has weathered the Great Depression, the 1980s farm crisis, and the evolving landscape of American agriculture. Today, fifth-generation farmer Levi Ochsner, his wife Jena, and three generations working side-…
With harvest wrapping up, our attention quickly changes to preparing for next year.
"I may be a fifth-generation rancher, but that doesn’t mean that I’m the generation that gets to quit learning."
New resources are available to help farmers make commodity program election decisions for the 2026 crop year ahead of the Dec. 11 enrollment deadline.
A South Dakota company is sending it's soy-based product around the world to feed fish, with about 80% going to the Norwegian Atlantic salmon market.
A gift of the deed – in this case referred to as the “remainder deed” – is not something to take any less seriously than any other moves in estate planning.
The first farmer feature in our series, The Road Ahead: Meet Kaleb Smit who spent the better part of two years planning how he could come back to work on the farm where he grew up.
Buckwheat – Fagopyrum esculentum Moench – is a broadleaf plant native to northern Asia. Seeds are brown in color, about the size of a soybean but irregularly shaped, with four triangular surfaces. The seeds germinate and emerge rapidly when planted in warm soil, typically in three to four da…
Harvest is a warp, and yields were some of the best Megan Horsager has ever seen on her Montevideo, Minnesota, farm.
"Problems of the mind can hit anyone, and it makes little difference who you are or what you are doing in life. This cattle fellow is living proof."
"We were there for the experience, for the bright, if low-hanging, November sun and the bite of the northwest breeze."
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